5 Things to do when you're board

Updated on August 7, 2013

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Find something to do.

Get off the couch, turn off Honey Boo Boo, and participate in the world. We're out here waiting for you. Demonstrate your talents to us and we may give you money in exchange. Your ability to support yourself dramatically increases when you have a marketable skill.

Here's a list of suggested activities in which to participate. Peruse our comprehensive compendium. You may be surprised or you may be enraged. Either way, we've engaged your brain. You're welcome.

The Ohio Nursing Board will keep you from getting bored. | Source

Join the Nursing Board

People will always get sick, and not just from reading this nonsense. Authentic medical conditions arise almost daily as medical researchers strive to assign medical-sounding names to every little hangnail or sniffle. Medical care must be provided by qualified nurses. Qualified nurses must be provided by Nursing Boards.

Someone has to make up the examinations and hand out the certificates that are suitable for framing. The Ohio Board of nursing authenticates some of the finest caregivers from Cleveland to Cincinnati. No one escapes their ever-vigilant gaze across the medical landscape of human intervention. In other words, if you want to be a nurse in Ohio, you gotta go through these folks.

Saw Something

Furniture doesn't grow on trees. A handy electric saw facilitates the transition from ancient majestic oak to underwear drawer. Go outside and look around: there's a potential board in every tree. Look online for multitudes of brands and models for your cutting satisfaction. We endorse Black and Decker along with whatever Sears has on sale this week.

Remember: measure twice, cut once. Wood is forgiving but it has a memory. It stays cut. Cutting with the grain is called ripping, while cutting against the grain is called the Democratic Party.

Always were eye protection regardless of your sawing direction. Sawdust permeates every available opening, crevice, and wrinkle. Your clothes will smell like fresh-cut lumber, which is better than spending $50 at Bed Bath and Beyond for a designer fragrance.

Learn to Account

Public accountancy provides us with a level of confidence in our daily financial dealings. The great state of Texas convenes an Accountancy Board to provide certifications for this burgeoning field of endeavor. Imagine how disastrous the Enron scandal would have been without Accountancy Boards in Texas.

You, too, can become one of these crucial people. With a ton of study, a good calculator, and certification from Texas State Board of Public Accountancy, the world can be your financial oyster.

A CPA, or Certified Public Accountant, type of person has good math skills as well as a cool green visor. Expect to pore over multitudinous spreadsheets long into the late afternoon, then head out to play golf. Your billing rate will be commensurate with the amount of education and experience you garner over your long career. There will always be someone to audit, except Congress.

BI, or Business Intelligence. There's a board for that. | Source

Increase your Business Intelligence

Businesses generate data, then get overwhelmed by it. Simply storing the data is not enough. Enterprising data scientists in conjunction with public accountants provide third-party products that analyze. Slicing and dicing corporate information is big business these days, and not just for the NSA.

You will need high-tech tools to get the job done. Don't expect to stuff your data into a shoebox under the corporate couch. Implement speedy cloud-based solutions that leverage core competencies while synthesizing internal logical goals. Combine human capital with corporate structure to derive best of breed decision support in real time. You can do it all. Nothing will stand in your way when you have massive and expensive tools.

The way to college is through these tests. You won't be bored. | Source

Take a test and go to college

Institutions of higher learning prefer you to be thoroughly tested. Nursing colleges and accounting schools as well as carpentry institutions look for high scores on standardized exams. ACT and SAT represent thoroughly standardized tests designed to measure basic intelligence prior to college admission.

Look to collegeboard.org for date and times. Opportunities abound for demonstrating your proficiencies. Math matters. Science counts. English also comes into consideration when applying for admittance to any self-respecting school in the United States. Instead of making up a test, most schools happily rely on results proctored by The College Board.

Some schools welcome you as long as the check clears, but the resulting diploma may end up as bird cage liner. If you prefer a degree recognized by major employers, take the ACT and/or SAT before applying to a real college.

Online classes count a little: keep the pajama courses to a maximum of 20% of your entire curriculum. Most employers want some assurance that you can get up at a ridiculous hour and prepare yourself to meet the world in a personal manner. It's nice to be adept at Internet academia and it's even nicer to look someone in the eye and participate in a face-to-face class.

Become a cut-up

Nothing smells more like success than a cooking show on basic cable TV. Viewers eat it up. You can branch out into books, morning news show vignettes, and hopefully you won't get fired for something you said 20 years ago.

In order to succeed in cooking businesses, you'll need a cutting board. Learn to chop. Learn to master the paring knife. Become proficient in slicing and dicing. Feel yourself becoming absurdly wealthy as camera 1 zooms in to document your skills. It could happen.

A highly quality cutting board becomes a necessity. It could be constructed from wood or plastic or a composite amalgam of both. No self-respecting TV chef cuts onto the counter. The cutting board gratefully receives food chunks for temporary retention. Simply slide your chunks into your stew or marinade or quiche or spaghetti as prepared by dedicated interns off-camera. Yum!

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Comments 14 comments

Don't you actually need be in the medical field to join a nursing board?

nicomp 3 years ago from Ohio, USA Author

@normarulez : I don't know. The site probably has that info.

Austinstar 3 years ago from Somewhere in the universe

What??? You are asking me to give up Honey Boo Boo for Boards??? I'd rather put multiple characters after each sentence!!!

I recently attended a 'Paint Night' where the participants get together at a club, pub or watering hole and throw paint at a canvas whilst imbibing their favorite alcoholic beverage. While there is no accounting for taste, it was less boring than sawing logs, tallying numbers, taking tests or even wishing for Honey Boo Boo pinatas.

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Gawth 3 years ago from Millboro, Virginia

Or, maybe you could be on the cutting edge by teaming up with a cutting board. OK. Corny. I'm sorry Nicomp..

Insane Mundane 3 years ago from Earth

Oh, I thought most people come to sites like HubPages when they're bored and, when things get really bad, they come to your Hubs; ha!

Oh, scratch that... I just realized that this Hub was about boards; oops!

nicomp 3 years ago from Ohio, USA Author

@Austinstar: Just take a little break from Honey Boo Boo. It'll be OK.

nicomp 3 years ago from Ohio, USA Author

@Gawth: Genius! I will add that.

nicomp 3 years ago from Ohio, USA Author

@Insane: If you're bored, come to my hubs about boards.

drbj 3 years ago from south Florida

With this incisive, insightful hub, nicomb, you bored right through the mediocrity and malaise of enervating ennui that accompanies bourgeoisie. Trust me!

drbj 3 years ago from south Florida

I get easily board when I read about boreds, nicomp, so this was not only entertaining but useful, two.

nicomp 3 years ago from Ohio, USA Author

@drbj: Termites are boring. If you get bored, pick up your board and iron some clothes or hang 10 or shoot the curl. Something like that.

reader 3 years ago

funny stuff and under-appreciated.

Carolyn M Fields 13 months ago from the USA

board (bôrd)

n.

1. A long flat slab of sawed lumber; a plank.

2. A flat piece of rigid material designed to display information, especially:

a. A blackboard.

b. A bulletin board.

c. A scoreboard.

d. A toteboard.

Bore: verb (used with object), bored, boring.

1.

to weary by dullness, tedious repetition, unwelcome attentions, etc.:

The long speech bored me.

Things to do when you are bored: look up the definitions of words online.

nicomp 13 months ago from Ohio, USA Author

@Carolyn M Fields : Your contribution has raised the level of discourse. We are now above-board.